Improved combined buckle and snap



STEPHEN G. sTURGEs AND WILLIAM E'. STUEGES, on NEWARK,

- .NEW JERSEY. f

Letters Patent No. 91,685, dated June 22, 1869.

, mPRovx-:D COMBINED BUCKLE AND SNAP.f

The Schedule-referred'to in these Letters Patent and :making part of the same.

To all whom, it ma/y concern:

Be it known that we, SrEPHENsG. STURGES and 'WILLIAM E.v STURGEs, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have made certain Improvements in Combined Harness-Buckles and Snaps; and .declare thev following, in connection With the drawings annexed, to be aclear, full', and conv upon a bar across the buckle, ordinarily upon a tongueb'ar, and iu the construction of snaps adapted to the combination. l

On referring to the drawings it will be seen that Figure 1 shovvs one of the most important advantages o f having the snap and the buckle in separate pieces- A representing the spring-hook; B, .abuckle; and O, a strap.

A The lower bar of the buckle forms a loop for the end of the stlap a, and when the snap is its own spring, as shown in g. l, the pull upon the strap presses the bar andAend of strap on to the end of the spring, keeping it closed, and preventing whatever the snap 'holds from becoming disengaged from the buckle.

The snap being loose, and turning on the bar (as Figure 2) in cases where the snap connects the parts of harness, relieves the leather in bending, the joint that moves being metal, which improves it in strength and endurance. I` ,l

In forming snaps, they can be made, as in g. 2,

,withthe spring separate, and riveted in the ordinary manner to the snap; or a piece of metal shaped by dies, as in Figure 3, can have the spring and the body of ,the snap of one piece of metal, so that when the broad part c enoircles the bar in the buckle, the end s will bethe spring. l

Also, iipreferred, the snap and spring may be formed of one pieceby shaping the dies so as to out two sides and one end of a piece in the back of the snap, as shown in Figure 5, the piece e, when brought forward, forming the spring.

In others cases, the snap and the buckle-tongue are made 'of one piece by the same process as the aforedescribed spring e, as shown at Figure 6, and the piece f, when properly curved and set, forms the tongue, as shown in Figure 4.

Any form and style of buckle may be used in combination with the snap.

Time and leather are more than suiciently econonized to defraying the cost by the use of combined buckle and snap, to join the parts of harness together. What we claim as 'our improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 4 The spring-hook A, constructed as described, in com. bination with a buckle, when hinged to the cross-bar ofthe same, as showin-and for the purpose set forth.`

STEPHEN G. SRURGES. WILLIAM E. S'IURGES. Witnesses:

W. M. GooDING, EDWARD OoLLvER. 

